2011 Football Roster
Sep 20 (Sat)
8:15 p.m.
Tyler McCulloch
- Position:
- Wide Receiver
- Height:
- 6-5
- Weight:
- 205
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Albuquerque, N.M.
- High School:
- Eldorado
AT COLORADO: He finished his career with 88 receptions (20th all-time at Colorado) for 1,089 yards (21st), averaging 12.4 yards per catch.
2014 (Sr.) - He fully rebounded from a foot injury that hampered him his sophomore year, he finished fourth on the team in receptions with 30; he gained 419 yards, or 14.0 per, scoring two touchdowns. He had four or more receptions five times, with both his TD catches coming against Oregon State (covering 31 and 17 yards). He concluded his career with his first 100-yard career game (4-101) in the season finale against Utah. He missed all of spring practice healing from a chronic stress reaction in a foot, participating in conditioning on a limited basis.
2013 (Jr.) - He played in all 12 games (no starts), despite his being hampered much of the season with an injured foot (deemed a stress reaction). He caught 14 passes for 138 yards and a touchdown, all but one in the first half of the season. His top game came against Central Arkansas, when he had five grabs for 50 yards; his scored his touchdown on a 24-yard pass from Connor Wood at Oregon State (he caught two balls for 29 yards in that contest). He also made three receptions for 41 yards at Arizona State.
2012 (Soph.) - He played in all 12 games, including 10 starts, finishing second on the team in both receptions (34) and yards (436), as well as owning the second best yards per catch (12.8) for those with 10 or more receptions. He was also second in catches for 20 or more yards (6) and those that went 10-plus (17). He scored two touchdowns, which came against CSU and Fresno State, and had at least one catch in 11 games with a high of seven (for 69 yards) versus UCLA. His yardage best came in the season finale against Utah, when he had six receptions for 88 yards. He earned 16 first downs (including six of eight catches on third downs), and he caught 15 balls on first down throws (for a team best 13.5 yards per). He had one special teams point, coming on a knockdown block on return unit duty. He was one of only three receivers on the roster who entered the year that had caught a pass in college.
2011 (Fr.) - He played in all 13 games, including two starts (California, Colorado State), becoming just the seventh true freshman to start at least one game at wide receiver since 1973 (but the fifth since 2007). He caught 10 passes for 96 yards and a touchdown, with six of the receptions earning first downs. He caught two passes in three games and one in four others; he had two for 25 yards in his first career game, the season opener at Hawai’i. He also caught a pair against Cal and Stanford, and his touchdown came on a 14-yard throw from Tyler Hansen at Ohio State. He also saw action on special teams, racking up five special team points on the strength of four knockdown blocks and a fumble recovery (the latter against Oregon).
HIGH SCHOOL - As a senior, he earned first-team All-State honors from the coaches at both wide receiver and defensive back, along with first-team All-District 2-5A accolades at both positions. Rivals.com ranked him as the No. 10 player overall in the state of New Mexico, as well as the top receiver; NewMexicoPreps.com ranked him No. 14 and third, respectively. As a junior, he was first-team All-District 5-5A at wide receiver. As a senior, he missed all but five games after suffering a lacerated liver and spleen early in the year, though he was able to return by the end of the season and participate in the playoffs. Despite missing just over half the season, he still caught 40 passes for 570 yards and nine touchdowns. On defense, he played both cornerback and safety, racking up 42 tackles, with five passes broke up, two fumble recoveries and a caused fumble. As a junior, he hauled in 52 passes for 720 yards and 11 touchdowns. His two top games as a senior bookended the season: in a 46-26 win over West Mesa in the opener, he caught 11 passes (three one-handed) for 130 yards and a touchdown, and in a 28-27 loss to Las Cruces in the quarterfinals of the state playoffs, he had seven receptions for 186 yards and all four Eldorado touchdowns (53, 7, 19 and 6 yards); Eldorado went for two points with 1:18 left but couldn’t convert. Under coach Charlie Dotson, Eldorado was 9-3 his senior year, 6-6 his junior season, and 12-1 and District Champions his sophomore year. He also lettered twice in baseball (pitcher/outfield), and played basketball as a freshman.
ACADEMICS - He is majoring in Communication at Colorado (owner of a 3.34 grade point average). He earned second-team Pac-12 All-Academic Team honors as a senior, and was an honorable mention choice both a junior and sophomore. He earned first-team Academic All-Colorado honors from the state’s chapter of the National Football Foundation as a senior (the group’s inaugural team); the NFF (national) also honored him as a 2015 Hampshire Society team member. Owner of a 3.9 grade point average in high school, he was an Academic All-Albuquerque Metro Team member as a senior and an Academic All-District honoree as a junior and senior.
| RECEIVING |
High Games
|
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| Season |
G
|
No.
|
Yds
|
Avg.
|
TD
|
Long
|
Rec
|
Yds
|
| 2011 |
13
|
10
|
96
|
9.6
|
1
|
19
|
2
|
25
|
| 2012 |
12
|
34
|
436
|
12.8
|
2
|
37
|
7
|
88
|
| 2013 |
12
|
14
|
138
|
9.9
|
1
|
24t
|
5
|
50
|
| 2014 |
12
|
30
|
419
|
14.0
|
2
|
36
|
6
|
101
|
| Totals |
49
|
88
|
1089
|
12.4
|
6
|
37
|
7
|
101
|
